Singer/songwriter Erick Baker has earned a large and growing following (especially in his native Tennessee) for his emotionally powerful songs about the travails of love and life. Erick Baker was born in Knoxville, Tennessee on December 12, 1978 and while he grew up with a love of music, he didn't sing or write songs as a teenager, and didn't begin performing until he enrolled at the University of Tennessee, where he studied communication.